Connect with researchers, educators, and local community leaders and get involved in programs focused on energy, the environment, and sustainability studies. All undergraduate students are invited to attend to learn about research, education, and career opportunities in energy, the environmental, and sustainability studies.…
Dr. Lieberman is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of North Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2011 to 2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University in their Department of Science and Technology Studies. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Lieberman has held fellowships at the Bakken Library and Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. At the University of North Florida, she was a 2016-2017 Community Scholar in the Center for Community Based Learning and was the 2017 Fellow for the Florida Blue Center for Ethics. Additionally, she earned UNF’s Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2017. She is the author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952.…
Electrification has touched nearly every aspect of American life. Between 1882 and 1952, it changed daily routines, inspired new art forms, revolutionized the fields of chemistry, biology, and physics—it even changed landscapes and ecosystems. The corporate and scientific dimensions of this history have been told; Dr. Jennifer Lieberman tells the narrative and cultural history. Discussing her book, Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952 …
Sean Seymore is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. His talk, "Rethinking Failure in Law and Sciences" addresses how patent law should change in response to scientific advances and how the formation of public policy should be impacted by law and science. Professor Seymore graduated from the University of Tennessee as a Tennessee Scholar with his B.S. in Chemistry. He received his M.S. in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame.…
Professor Lawrence Principe is coming to give a talk and a demonstration of some alchemical practices!…
Graduate student workshop with Harvey Brown, lunch will be provided!…
Harvey Brown will give a talk on Einstein's rocky road to his discovery of gravity, focusing on the action-reaction principle.
Einstein regarded as one of the triumphs of his 1915 theory of gravity — the general theory of relativity — that it vindicated the action–reaction principle, while Newtonian mechanics as well as his 1905 special theory of relativity supposedly violated it. In this talk I examine why Einstein came to emphasize this position several years after the development of general relativity. Several key considerations are relevant to the story: the connection Einstein originally saw between Mach’s analysis of inertia and both the equivalence principle and the principle of general covariance, the waning of Mach’s influence owing to de Sitter’s 1917 results, and Einstein’s detailed correspondence with Moritz Schlick in 1920. The talk is largely based on the paper: …
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More information coming soon.…
Vincent Resh, Ph.D., is a professor of aquatic ecology at the University of California-Berkeley who has studied rivers and wetlands around the globe with the goal of improving human health and environmental quality. A renowned researcher and teacher, Resh received the Award of Excellence from the Society for Freshwater Science and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California.…
PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE IS RESCHEDULED from the original March 23 date that was cancelled due to East Coast severe weather conditions.
Genese Sodikoff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and her talk, "Multispecies Ethnography and Epidemiological Puzzles," discusses the challenges of epidemiology within rapidly transforming landscape and genetics. As a cultural anthropologist, Professor Sodikoff is interested in the political economy of biodiversity loss, conservation, and restoration, labor and rain forest conservation in Madagascar, and the biotic and cultural problem of extinction. She is the author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere…
The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Register Now
The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Register Now
The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. Register Now
The Notre Dame Science Policy Initiative is hosting Prof. Phil Mirowski of the Reilly Center in the Duncan Student Center for a talk on Open Science. Come join the conversation! All are welcome and pizza will be provided.…
HPS Writing Group…
Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
HPS Writing Group…
The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach/MFO) was founded in late 1944 by the Freiburg mathematician Wilhelm Süss (1895-1958) as „National Institute for Mathematics“. In the 1950s and 1960s the MFO developed into an increasingly international conference centre.…
During the Scientific Revolution, scientific instruments, such as astrolabes, air pumps, microscopes and telescopes became increasingly important for the study of nature. In the early modern period they had not yet reached the status of standardized and impersonal means to study nature. Rather, they usually were unique items, which by their function as well as their design could serve the mediation between scholars, social elites and beyond. In this context the iconography on the instruments played a crucial role. In fact a great number of early modern instruments are adorned with images, that in themselves have no relevance for the use of the instruments, as for instance the depiction of Atlas and Hercules on an astrolabe by Praetorius (1568, Dresden) or the line of tradition in astronomy and geometry on Bürgi's astronomical clock (1591, Kassel) stretching from the church fathers to Copernicus. As of now, such imagery on instruments and its context have only sporadically been analysed. The project Iconography on early modern scientific instruments specifically analyses the imagery on the instruments. It aims for the first time at a systematic analysis of the multifaceted visual material on the instruments asking for its role in the various contexts of the adorned instruments (genesis, function, use) and its importance for setting up or supporting stories/histories of success and relevance within the emerging field of the sciences. The iconography points to quite a few significant topics as, for instance, statements of specific positions in theoretical debates (e.g. Copernican question), mediation and illustration of knowledge, in particular by picturing the usability of the instruments, or the role of instruments as patronage artefacts with specific iconographic programmes.…
Dr. Leroy E. Hood graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1964 with
an MD and from Caltech with a PhD in biochemistry in 1968. After three years as a Senior
Investigator at NIH, his academic career began at Caltech, where he and his colleagues developed
the DNA gene sequencer and synthesizer, and the protein synthesizer and sequencer–four
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Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
Panel discussion: The Medium is the Message? Practicing journalism in the age of digital media. November 7th 3pm, McKenna Hall, followed by a reception
Information technology has transformed the media industry, not only creating new platforms for sharing information but radically shifting patterns of consumption and the practices of news production. What is the impact of these changes on the stories that can be told, and on the journalists who tell them? And what are the implications of these changes for the role of journalism as a profession. Join us for a panel discussion where two practicing journalists working in very different contexts reflect on these issues—Victoria Lomasko, a graphic journalist from Russia; and Victoria St. Martin, a distinguished visiting journalist in the Gallivan Program who specializes in multiplatform journalism, social media, and general assignment reporting.…
Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
Philosophy of Physics Journal Club…
